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Farmer Ants Created By God

on June 8, 2010; last updated June 8, 2010

Farmer ants grow fungi for food.

Did you know that God gave some ants the ability to farm? Yes, it’s true! Some
ants, living in the Amazon, raise fungi for food. This poses a slight problem
for evolutionary scientists. Some evolutionary scientists believe that the ants
evolved around 12 million years ago, but they believe the fungi eaten by the
ants evolved around two or three million years ago. So the ants would have had
to survive without farming these fungi for millions of years. These scientists
think that maybe the ants farmed something else prior to the evolution of these
types of fungi, but are not completely sure how to explain this.

“Mycologist Bryn Dentinger of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, says
that the results add ‘another level of complexity’ to the coevolution of the
ants and fungi. But he cautions that the evolutionary history of fungi is still
poorly understood, and the results will have to be updated as scientists discover
new fungal species.” *

We can come up with a much better explanation by starting with the Bible, which
is exactly what creation scientists have done. They have started with identical
scientific data, but have drawn vastly different conclusions. Creation scientists
believe that God created plants and probably certain fungi, such as the fungi
eaten by these ants, on the third day of the creation week, around 6,000 years
ago (Genesis 1:11-13). Creation scientists believe that God created ants on
the sixth day of the creation week (Genesis 1:24-25). Creation scientists also
believe that all creatures ate plants before Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden
of Eden (Genesis 1:30-31). If we combine scientific data with biblical facts,
it’s easy to see that the ants could have been able to cultivate these
fungi from the very beginning.